From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 21 14:39:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA01680 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 14:39:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA01671 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 14:39:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA05280; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 14:39:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 14:39:38 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Yingjun He cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Keyboard Locked In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980118140809.0095add0@newton.ccs.tuns.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Yingjun He wrote: > Hello, > > I am running FreeBSD2.15. When I use X-window for a while(a few days), my > keyboard is > locked. I can open a new xterm or other x-applications using mouse but I > cannot type > anything. I lost my keyboard function. All I can do is to exit X-window and > restart > it. This is really anoying because my processes are killed. Can you tell me > how can > I fix this problem? Buy a new keyboard? My old P90 did this and I think I traced it to the keyboard controller on the motherboard. Also check that numlock is off -- numlock does crazy things to X. > Also how can I set limit in this version of FreeBSD. I tried > /etc/login.conf, it seems not working. Did you rebuild the database? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major